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Jullie Y. Daza
Pork is in short supply, too expensive. Eat veggies instead? Some of them are worth their weight in gold.
Eat fish? Only the rich can afford the poor man’s fish, galunggong. Now, the poor are also complaining that sardine prices could go up soon, with manufacturers asking for a 60-centavo price increase to cover the cost of the tin can.
Not only are sardine prices going up, the fish are getting smaller, like some of our babies. The former is due to overfishing, the latter due to undernourishment. A three-year-old study showing a trend in the stunting of infants is as worrisome as news that the lockdown has caused a spike in teenage pregnancies. What could be worse? Girls as young as 10 getting pregnant, that’s what.